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Title: Does President Trump have a staff infection? ANOTHER UPDATE
Post by: Machiavelli on May 11, 2017, 11:26:17 pm
President Trump needs to fire some of his staff. They are doing him and the country a disservice.

President Trump has made excellent appointments for his cabinet and Supreme Court.

However, the same cannot be said about his staff. He has a staff infection. Some of his staff members need to be fired. They are incompetent and / or yes men. They undermine him. They make him look bad. They don't represent him well.

Suggestions on those who should be canned:
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on May 11, 2017, 11:27:13 pm
Would be great if he fired himself.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Sanguine on May 11, 2017, 11:28:03 pm
As unpopular as this opinion might be, I think he should listen to Bannon more.  He tends to temper Trump's NE liberal ideas a bit.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: mystery-ak on May 11, 2017, 11:34:22 pm
Considering that NO ONE foresaw the reaction the Dems had on the firing of Comey...yes, I would say a few need to go..they are supposedly seasoned politicos...and should have foreseen this..
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Applewood on May 11, 2017, 11:48:34 pm
Would be great if he fired himself.

Exactly.  The problems in the Oval Office begin and end with Trump.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Oceander on May 12, 2017, 12:02:48 am
Considering that NO ONE foresaw the reaction the Dems had on the firing of Comey...yes, I would say a few need to go..they are supposedly seasoned politicos...and should have foreseen this..

Exactly. 
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: ABX on May 12, 2017, 12:12:24 am
Add John Barron to the list.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Cripplecreek on May 12, 2017, 12:19:58 am
Would be great if he fired himself.

The buck stops somewhere short of the Oval Office.  :silly:
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Rivergirl on May 12, 2017, 12:23:35 am
Blaming his staff are we???????????
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Machiavelli on May 12, 2017, 01:09:21 am
Blaming his staff are we???????????

Somewhat, but he hired them so where does the blame lie?

Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Wingnut on May 12, 2017, 01:57:17 am
Personally, the way Trump has acted lately I think he is suffering from a yeast infection.
Title: Trump Weighs Shake-Up of Press Team: President blames team for failing to contain Comey controversy, and hasn’t ruled out replacing Spicer
Post by: Machiavelli on May 12, 2017, 11:23:29 pm
Trump Weighs Shake-Up of Press Team: President blames team for failing to contain Comey controversy, and hasn’t ruled out replacing Spicer (https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-weighs-shake-up-of-press-team-1494623227)
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Gefn on May 13, 2017, 09:09:49 am
It's 4 am

My first thought was he had a cold when I saw your headline.

 :silly:
Title: Re: Trump Weighs Shake-Up of Press Team: President blames team for failing to contain Comey controversy, and hasn’t ruled out replacing Spicer
Post by: DB on May 13, 2017, 10:58:53 am
Trump Weighs Shake-Up of Press Team: President blames team for failing to contain Comey controversy, and hasn’t ruled out replacing Spicer (https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-weighs-shake-up-of-press-team-1494623227)

What's he going to do when no one will take the job? Because its an impossible job cleaning up after Trump.
Title: Re: Trump Weighs Shake-Up of Press Team: President blames team for failing to contain Comey controversy, and hasn’t ruled out replacing Spicer
Post by: Wingnut on May 13, 2017, 11:25:56 am
What's he going to do when no one will take the job? Because its an impossible job cleaning up after Trump.

Even Charmin refused the job!
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on May 13, 2017, 11:29:46 am
It's amazing that one person disagreed with the poll... who could be that stupid?
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Applewood on May 13, 2017, 03:03:12 pm
I don't care who is on Trump's staff - it has to be nearly impossible to do a good job when the boss undermines you and everything you try to do. 

For example -- the Comey firing. I would have thought that Trump's staff would have met, or athe least someone would have prepared a memo -- discussing what the official story should be. Instead, we have staffers saying one thing and Trump another. As a boss in the corporate world, Trump should have made sure that he and his underlings were all in the same page.  Looks like he didn't do that.  Says something about Trump's management skills - or lack thereof.  I get the feeling that Trump doesn't really manage at all.  He lets his employees flail about; then he contradicts and sabotage them. 

Frankly, I'd say anyone who works for Trump and is canned ought to consider it a good thing.  It has to be hell working for an incompetent, perhaps mentally ill, employer. 

Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Sanguine on May 13, 2017, 03:15:07 pm
I don't care who is on Trump's staff - it has to be nearly impossible to do a good job when the boss undermines you and everything you try to do. 

For example -- the Comey firing. I would have thought that Trump's staff would have met, or athe least someone would have prepared a memo -- discussing what the official story should be. Instead, we have staffers saying one thing and Trump another. As a boss in the corporate world, Trump should have made sure that he and his underlings were all in the same page.  Looks like he didn't do that.  Says something about Trump's management skills - or lack thereof.  I get the feeling that Trump doesn't really manage at all.  He lets his employees flail about; then he contradicts and sabotage them. 

Frankly, I'd say anyone who works for Trump and is canned ought to consider it a good thing.  It has to be hell working for an incompetent, perhaps mentally ill, employer.

I have a similar boss - if you do good, you're golden, if things don't turn out well, don't expect him to have your back.  I don't always like it, but it does produce results.  And, he's the opposite of incompetent or mentally ill.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Applewood on May 13, 2017, 03:34:38 pm
I have a similar boss - if you do good, you're golden, if things don't turn out well, don't expect him to have your back.  I don't always like it, but it does produce results.  And, he's the opposite of incompetent or mentally ill.

And if Trump was like your boss, then that would be ok.  But I'm inclined to believe that Trump derives some perverse pleasure out of deliberately wrecking his employees' careers and pitting them against each other.    He constantly changes his mind and his strategy.  I'm not even sure he has a strategy.  How does an employee keep up?  And what really is accomplished?  I can't see what benefit to the presidency and to the good of the nation is derived by this behavior?  Seems to me if you are going to make your employees' jobs even harder, you aren't going to get much done.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Cripplecreek on May 13, 2017, 03:58:29 pm
And if Trump was like your boss, then that would be ok.  But I'm inclined to believe that Trump derives some perverse pleasure out of deliberately wrecking his employees' careers and pitting them against each other.    He constantly changes his mind and his strategy.  I'm not even sure he has a strategy.  How does an employee keep up?  And what really is accomplished?  I can't see what benefit to the presidency and to the good of the nation is derived by this behavior?  Seems to me if you are going to make your employees' jobs even harder, you aren't going to get much done.

I would never degrade myself by working for someone like Trump. He seems to take some kind of perverse joy in destroying the people who work for him.

I once worked for a guy who was developing some of those insulting "I'm rich and I'm the boss" tendencies. One day somebody secretly recorded him in a meeting while he was talking about the company policy against employees dating. There were only 5 of us who were regular full time employees with about 40 temps and the boss was caught saying "I don't care if you guys want to F*** the temps. They're a dime a dozen and if you mess around with one and she becomes a problem I can replace her in under an hour."

That led to another meeting with the boss apologizing to the temps but the best part was when somebody spoke up and asked "So how old were you when you realized that you were rich enough that you could treat people like that and not get beat down with a tire iron?" The guy pointed out that there were a lot of angry boyfriends and husbands out there and the boss should be vigilant walking to his car at night.

The look of fear that spread across the boss's face was precious.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: bigheadfred on May 13, 2017, 04:13:20 pm
Personally, the way Trump has acted lately I think he is suffering from a yeast infection.

You are right. Ivanka needs to go.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Rivergirl on May 13, 2017, 11:45:35 pm
You are right. Ivanka needs to go.

snicker snort............ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: libertybele on May 26, 2017, 12:59:06 am
snicker snort............ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

On a more serious note ... Ivanka needs to go along with her corrupt husband; I believe Kushner is one of the leakers.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: bigheadfred on May 26, 2017, 01:01:45 am
On a more serious note ... Ivanka needs to go along with her corrupt husband; I believe Kushner is one of the leakers.

Looks like he is in the firing line now.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Rivergirl on May 26, 2017, 01:28:00 am
Interesting side note in a story in the Guardian today  Ivank and Jared at dinner in Italy and among their meal included a shrimp dish.
Need I say more..........about those devout Jews
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Machiavelli on May 26, 2017, 01:57:00 am
Interesting side note in a story in the Guardian today  Ivank and Jared at dinner in Italy and among their meal included a shrimp dish.
Need I say more..........about those devout Jews

They're Modern Orthodox Jews (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Orthodox_Judaism) so they don't necessarily follow the dietary laws (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashrut). I see no problem here. Let them eat what they want to eat.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 26, 2017, 02:04:49 am
And if Trump was like your boss, then that would be ok.  But I'm inclined to believe that Trump derives some perverse pleasure out of deliberately wrecking his employees' careers and pitting them against each other.    He constantly changes his mind and his strategy.  I'm not even sure he has a strategy.  How does an employee keep up?  And what really is accomplished?  I can't see what benefit to the presidency and to the good of the nation is derived by this behavior?  Seems to me if you are going to make your employees' jobs even harder, you aren't going to get much done.
It's the DRAMA! He must miss reality teevee....
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: bigheadfred on May 26, 2017, 02:07:37 am
Yeah. Let them eat what they want to eat.  Wait...WHAT?

with the exception of certain species of kosher locusts

Kosher locusts.

Kosher locusts.

That isn't working.

One more time.

Kosher locusts.

still nothing

 :silly:
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Bigun on May 26, 2017, 02:10:44 am
Quote
President Trump needs to fire some of his staff. They are doing him and the country a disservice.

Starting with Reince Priebus!
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection?
Post by: Rivergirl on May 26, 2017, 11:47:50 am
Machiavelli..........being a fallen away orthodox jewish woman, I can assure you...........some things are not on the menu.......shrimp being one of them.
Another thing not on the menu is pretending to be devout. 
Taking your children to Church on the Sabbath......
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection? UPDATED
Post by: Machiavelli on July 28, 2017, 10:32:40 pm
Bump
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection? UPDATED
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on July 28, 2017, 10:46:39 pm
Trump needs to fire himself, he's doing the country a great disservice.

His staff is much less of a problem than Trump is.
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection? UPDATED
Post by: Oceander on July 28, 2017, 11:22:50 pm
Starting with Reince Priebus!


@Bigun

Very prescient!
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection? UPDATED
Post by: Machiavelli on July 28, 2017, 11:39:41 pm
Starting with Reince Priebus!

@Bigun

Very prescient!

And you'll notice that Priebus topped the original list.  ^-^
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection? UPDATED AGAIN
Post by: Machiavelli on July 31, 2017, 07:44:54 pm
Bump
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection? ANOTHER UPDATE
Post by: Machiavelli on August 18, 2017, 08:27:28 pm
Bump
Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection? ANOTHER UPDATE
Post by: Machiavelli on August 18, 2017, 08:31:28 pm
Should Sarah Huckabee Sanders be canned too?

Title: Re: Does President Trump have a staff infection? ANOTHER UPDATE
Post by: bigheadfred on August 18, 2017, 09:13:13 pm
Should Sarah Huckabee Sanders be canned too?

Oh I don't know. A few words here and there off the cuff should be okay.